So I ask, my father, why do you wish to enter the forest ?" "Because," said Compton, leaning forward, "my father was lost in the forest, and I would find him.

Tell me, where is the white man your old men talked of ?" "The forest takes, the forest keeps," said Muata, lifting a hand solemnly.
"Do you mean," asked the boy, quietly, "that the white man does not live ?" "The people dealt well by their white man.

They gave him food; they carried water for him, and built his fire.

Even I, as a child, carried wood to him and listened at his knees." "I am not blaming the people; but I want to find the place that is called the Place of Rest, where my father lived; perhaps where he died." "This, then, is the hunting ?" said the chief, softly.
Mr.Hume recognized the suspicion in the altered tone and suave manner of the chief.
"We have spoken," he said sharply.

"We go into the forest to hunt and to seek without anger against any.